When everyone else wilted, Phil Mickelson hung on. Coming down Merion Golf Club’s devious home stretch, Mickelson played a nervy game and, despite a finishing bogey, grabbed a one-stroke lead at the U.S. Open heading into Sunday. The fact that Mickelson was the only player under par after three rounds served as testament to the difficulty of a course whose final five holes squeezed bogey after bogey out of the golfers atop the leaderboard. “I had to be really patient not to force the issue and fight for par out there,” Mickelson said. “This is a really fun challenge. It is a hard challenge but it is really fun.” Among the other top golfers on Saturday,...

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When everyone else wilted, Phil Mickelson hung on.
Coming down Merion Golf Club’s devious home stretch, Mickelson played a nervy game and, despite a finishing bogey, grabbed a one-stroke lead at the U.S. Open heading into Sunday.
The fact that Mickelson...